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John R. Freeman (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, l978) is the John Black Johnston Distinguished Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a visiting professor at the University Michigan and a consultant to international businesses, banks, the armed services and law firms. Among his honors are the Morse-Alumni All-University and College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Teaching Awards. Freeman is the author of Democracy and Markets: The Politics of Mixed Economies (Cornell University Press) and the co-author of Three Way Street: Strategic Reciprocity in World Politics (University of Chicago Press). The first of these books won the International Studies Association's Quincy Wright Award. It has been translated into Chinese. Freeman also edited three volumes of Political Analysis (University of Michigan Press). He has (co)authored numerous research articles in academic journals. Many of Freeman's research projects have been supported by the National Science Foundation. The Bank Austria Foundation and Austrian Ministry of Science also have supported his research.

Freeman has held many professional posts including President of the American Political Science Association's Section for Political Methodology. In addition, he has been a member of three NSF review panels and of three NSF select committees. At present, Freeman is engaged in several research projects. One analyzes the implications of economic globalization--especially financial integration--for democratization and political accountability. Another applies Bayesian time series methods in the study of intra and international political conflict. It develops a technology to forecast conflict in the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia. The NSF supported this project.

“Competing Commitments: Technocracy and Democracy in the Design of Monetary
Institutions.“ 2002. Special issue of International Organization 56(4): 889-910. Reprinted in The Political Economy of Monetary Institutions William Bernhard, Lawrence Broz, and William
Clark Editors Cambridge, Massachusetts: M.I.T. Press, 2003.

“Democracy and Markets: The Case of Exchange Rates.“ With Jude C. Hays and Helmut
Stix. 2000. American Journal of Political Science 44(3): 449-468. Working paper number 39.
Working paper series of the Austrian National Bank.

“Long-memoried Processes, Unit Roots, and Causal Inference in Political Science.“ With
Daniel Houser, John Williams, and Paul Kellstedt. 1998. American Journal of Political Science
42(4): 1289-1327.

“A Computable Equilibrium Model for the Study of Political Economy.“ 1998. With Daniel
Houser. American Journal of Political Science 42(2): 628-660.

“The Politics of Public and Private Investment in Britain.“ With James Alt. 1993. In The
Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State T. Janoski and A.Hicks Editors. New York:
Cambridge University Press.

Democracy and Markets: The Politics of Mixed Economies. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1989; Second printing 1991. Chinese language version published by Wu-Nan Book
Company, Ltd., 1994. Winner, Quincy Wright Book Award, International Studies Association.